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At least you're honest about it.
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I find the effects of smoking pretty unappealing, including breathe and stale odors.
However, the best scent combination for me in the entire world was growing up on Siesta Key beach smelling coconut suntan lotion, cigarettes, salt air, and sun all mixed up in an intoxicating aroma that will never leave me. ![]()
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In the end, for me, I just got tired of: Being a slave to it. Having a big wad of phlegm in my throat every morning and coughing it up, waking up at night with one, heaving like an asthma sufferer when I work out, (and getting my butt kicked by a 19 year old in sparring as a result) and finally thinking about having that conversation with my son/daughter about why Daddy won't be there for their wedding/graduation/whatever because I liked to smoke. Imagining the look on their face and the pain it would cause me to say it, well, that keeps me going. I'm on day 33 after 23 years....
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Who isn't honest about it? Is there anyone left in the world who doesn't know smoking is very bad for them? If so, I don't think they'll be convinced by a Surgeon General's warning label. I just love the arrogance of non-smokers who think they're really imparting wisdom by telling a smoker they're hurting themselves or anything everyone else in the world doesn't already know.
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Rick Lee... My usual response to "Don't you know that is bad for you?" Was a look in the eye and "Don't you know that butting into other peoples private business is bad for YOU?"
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Think about it. One of your own preaching to you. I've told myself one cigar on Saturday (social reasons), and if I feel like it, pull out the tobacco pipe on Sunday and watch the ducks land on my buddy's lake.
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Tobacco is the most addictive thing in the world, that is why. I have it on good authority from people that would know that it is worse than heroin or meth.
They lose a lot of their sense of smell, so they don't know how much they stink
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thing & from my own experience - still is. One only has to employ one's own higher learning centres to make the right & healthy choices. I won't begin tell you it is easy, it ain't, but it can be done. Good Luck & Cheers JB & OBTW - I give smokers a free pass unless it's in my car or house & I try to avoid 2nd hand smoke without making others feel uncomfortable
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Hoping things get better for you Rick V.
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Scariest thing for me is I fear at least one of my children will "pick up the habit" from my example. Oldest daughter--no worries, she's been chastising me about my smoking since she learned to talk. Second daughter--a little worried, she's been mimicking the puffing/smoking (fingers to mouth and away) since she learned to start imitating people (I never smoke in the house or around the kids--always outside in solitude, but she could see me), she's impulsive and she LOVES the smell...and my son...not so worried. He says he likes the smell, but tells me I'm dumb for smoking (he's 6 as of yesterday). Gotta love the wisdom of children.
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She is the one person in the family which smokes, and a lot too. I once gave her a pack of "Black Death" brand as a joke, she smoked them all and then told me they were not very good. Maybe she feels it makes her closer to our dad which passed away (non-related death) 25 years ago.
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I'm a similar story, Kach. I was adament about non-smoking as a kid (dad and 3 sisters smoked). I never messed with dad's smokes (he'd have killed me), but I often did stuff to my sisters; hid them, sprayed them with water guns while they lit one up to kill it, told them they were stupid, etc. My dad's been smoking since he was 12--and it shows. Even when I was a kid, he would wake up in the middle of the night hacking up a lung, had his first heart attack at 36 (he was also a heavy drinker and used TONS of salt), etc. So, I know the effects; have always known them, and yet I started smoking...when I was an adult. Typically, I consider myself a rather intelligent person. So, why in the hell did I start something so damn stupid? It still baffles me.
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One of the answers is that it's his own choice, if you ask nice.
If you don't ask in a nice way, the answer is "why the f care?". It's not your business. If the smoker who bothered you by smoking in your property or your own place or an enclosed public place, kick him out. I he bothered you by smoking smoking on the public street, you have a problem.
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I tried dope and loved it, I tried drinking and loved it, I tried cigarettes and hated them the first, second, third, and fourth times I tried them. I was never addicted to any of these things, or anything else for that matter including the good pain pills after my recent accident.
I believe there are people who are born with a predisposition for weakness, or in simpler terms, an addictive personality. Anything they try will become a life long habit very soon. |
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